{"id":1489,"date":"2008-08-02T23:57:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T23:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/02\/blog-the-recess\/"},"modified":"2008-08-02T23:57:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T23:57:59","slug":"blog-the-recess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/02\/blog-the-recess\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOG THE RECESSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherhooduncensored.typepad.com\/motherhood_uncensored\/2008\/07\/blog-the-recess.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"83\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/dontgeltoosoon\/images\/2008\/08\/02\/blogtherecession4.jpg?resize=150%2C83\" title=\"Blogtherecession4\" alt=\"Blogtherecession4\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a> The economy&#8217;s slow, even on the Internet, so one of my favorite (and most audacious) bloggers, &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/motherhooduncensored.typepad.com\/motherhood_uncensored\/\">Motherhood Uncensored<\/a>,&quot; has come up with a solution:<a href=\"http:\/\/motherhooduncensored.typepad.com\/motherhood_uncensored\/2008\/07\/blog-the-recess.html\"> blog the recession<\/a>.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s how she explains it:&nbsp; &quot;<em>The premise is simple. If you read blogs, then for the month of<br \/>\nAugust, make the &quot;pledge&quot; to click through from your feed reader. No<br \/>\nobligation to leave a hilarious comment or send a long stalkerish email<br \/>\n(although both, within reason, are always lovely). Just click through<br \/>\nto the blog (not on ads unless you are so led) and if you&#8217;re feeling<br \/>\ngenerous, click around to their older posts.&nbsp; &nbsp;Just those <strong>extra page views<\/strong> can make a big<br \/>\ndifference for bloggers who could really use the help, or in my case,<br \/>\nwhere page views don&#8217;t matter so much, a big fat ego boost<\/em>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>So while you&#8217;re on hold, or just kind of wandering, do a good deed and click around a bit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economy&#8217;s slow, even on the Internet, so one of my favorite (and most audacious) bloggers, &quot;Motherhood Uncensored,&quot; has come up with a solution: blog the recession.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s how she explains it:&nbsp; &quot;The premise is simple. If you read blogs, then for the month of August, make the &quot;pledge&quot; to click through from your feed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/02\/blog-the-recess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BLOG THE RECESSION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,29],"tags":[319,1339,196,596,210],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblogs","category-women","tag-blog","tag-blog-the-recession","tag-bloggers","tag-economy","tag-motherhood-uncensored"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-o1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}